The National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health, collects, preserves, and makes available to the public information about health, medicine, and the biomedical sciences. To continue fulfilling this mission, NLM is collecting and archiving related Web content, which also serves to document the histories of health and medicine.

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Website of Images and Texts in Medical History workshop that brought together historians and librarians interested in applying digital humanities tools to researching the history of medicine. Seventy-Five participants and observers gathered at the National Library of Medicine April 11-13 to explore innovative methods and data sources useful for analyzing images and texts in the field of medical history.

On July 30, 2015 the Medicare and Medicaid programs celebrated their 50th Anniversary. Many federal offices and private organizations celebrated the anniversary by examining the history of the programs and forecasting what they saw, at that moment in time, as their future. This collection of links provides a snapshot of the thought put forth on that occasion.

BSD provides access to biomedical literature references. It does this primarily through MEDLARS® (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System), the Library's computer-based system for storing and retrieving bibliographic and factual information, and the printed products derived from this system, such as International Nursing Index, Index to Dental Literature, and others.